Black-out Poetry
The Austin Kleon prompt I chose to complete this week instructed me to black out words on a page of Moby Dick until I was left with a poem. This prompt directly relates to our discussions in my Writing for Digital Media class because this week we have focused on remixing forms of media to create something new. Specifically, the prompt asked me to complete a selective remix because I had to remove words from the page to a create a poem using no original content. While completing this prompt, I remembered a time when I made poems by doing the exact opposite. In my high school English class, I sat in the back of the classroom next the the metal heater. One day after I took my seat, I noticed a collection of magnetic words clinging to the heater next to me. The words were from a magnetic poetry set my teacher had, but I don't know how they ended up on the heater. While my teacher lectured about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , I sat and stared at the cluster o